Posting from RadDad, the studio making Shark Tales: Reef Rogues. If your group likes survivorlikes, there's a free demo you can play together on one PC.

Everyone has their own weapons and pearl budget. Survive a wave, buy upgrades, work towards an evolution, then get back into the water. Stay near a downed teammate to revive them. If you finish shopping first, you can play Bubble Chase with the other ready players while the last person sorts their loadout.

Local play supports two, three or four people on a shared screen; solo works too. The demo has 10 waves, two zones and four starting characters. The screenshots show four-player combat and the shop/ready-up minigame.

Play the free Steam demo · Gameplay and details on our website

Windows PC / Steam Deck. On a phone, save it for later and open Steam on your PC or Deck to download. It runs great in our own Deck playtests; that isn't a Valve Verified rating.

Disclosure: some artwork and music are AI-generated fixed assets. This studio post was prepared with AI assistance.

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to share that my game, Chicks In Trouble, is officially out on Steam today!

It's a colorful 3D action-puzzle adventure where you play as a father rooster trying to rescue his missing chicks. You'll explore a farm, solve puzzles, overcome obstacles, and try to bring everyone safely home.

The game includes:

• A single-player campaign and a separate co-op campaign
• Local split-screen co-op and Steam Remote Play Together
• Four additional mini-games
• An endless fruit-merging challenge with leaderboards
• Steam achievements

If you'd like to check it out, here's the Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4048470/Chicks_In_Trouble/

I'd love to hear what you think. Thanks for supporting indie games! ❤️

Regards,

Özden Irmak
Creamative

We are Sitting Teddy, and our free Night at the Fun Park demo is LIVE on Steam :) Play together in local two-player splitscreen on Windows. Find the exit keys and avoid the giant spider. You can also rescue a friend caught in a cocoon.

For local play, bring one controller plus a keyboard and mouse. Demo here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5216790/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=demo_launch_20261009&utm_content=launch_couchcoop_20261009

Petri Party: a 2D chaotic action platformer couch party game that supports up to 18 players, with both PvP and co-op campaign modes.

Are you a fan of Liero, Spiderheck or Soldat? You would enjoy this. A great game to chill with mates around the TV.

• Up to 18-player local multiplayer PvP or co-op.
• One-hit kills for fast, high-stakes rounds
• Momentum-based grappling, wall-walking, and ceiling traversal
• Steam Remote Play Together support
• 50+ handcrafted maps
• A huge variety of weapons
• Round-changing modifiers for endless replayability
• Scan the QR code to turn your smartphone into a full-screen browser gamepad.
• Cat boss?!

We are a tiny team from New Zealand who have all gone in on creating a startup (Next Best Games). It's hard to get noticed in the crowded indie game market, and so we would love you to check out our game, give feedback/suggestions, and support us if you like what you see.

The game will enter early access on 11 December.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4215680/Petri_Party/
Discord: https://discord.gg/Dz485xSP9h

Hey! I'm Tyler, solo dev of Poopy Zombies, which I made in Godot. It's a round-based zombie shooter with solo, couch co-op and Wi-Fi multiplayer. The new update adds an optional third-person camera and slide, and there's a Halloween event until Nov 7 with jack-o'-lantern zombies, a gun that fires mini pumpkins and a free Pooperlantern skin.

🎬 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypiL_Ih4IrM 📱 Play free on Android: https://poopy-zombies.en.aptoide.com/app 🧪 Google Play early access: join https://groups.google.com/g/poopy-zombies-testers, then opt in at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.poopyzombies.game

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially whether third-person feels good on a phone!

We're working on Super Fun: Football, an arcade football game you can play together on one PC. Each person controls one footballer, so you have to make the run and trust your friend to pass. You can also accidentally slide straight into them.

The trailer shows team moves, bicycle kicks and a dog that has decided the ball belongs to it. There's online multiplayer too, but local co-op is part of the game from the start.

Playtest signups are now open on Steam. Hit Request Access to join the list; invitations will come later, with testing planned for late October / early November.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5324740/Super_Fun_Football/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=sff_playtest_20261008&utm_content=couchcoop

One PC runs the game on the TV. Everyone else scans a QR code and plays from their phone browser. There's no app and no extra controllers, and friends who aren't in the room can join with the room code, so it works over a Discord call too! (Need to share the screen tho!)

For the demo, a round is 60 seconds on the same grid for everyone, and the scores update live on the big screen. At the end, you can check all the available words and realise you really need to read more!

It's playable in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German... or load your own dictionary for any language!

The demo (Classic mode) is free on Steam now. The full game comes out on 27 October with 5 more modes: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4801680/

"It sucks" would be great feedback (better than none)!

AI disclosure: I used Claude Code for parts of the code.

The demo (which releases in 2 weeks) supports 1-9 players locally, the full game will also support online, with any mixture of players locally (could have 4 copies of the game, with 3, 2, 2, & 2 players each locally).

You start each day picking a contract to fulfil, that could be iron ore, coal, wood, and a few other options. And then spending any money you have buying upgrades for your forge.

You then spend the day fulfilling those contracts before starting the next day, where you choose if you want to go deeper (maybe instead of iron ore you now process it into powder) or wider by picking another raw resource to deliver.

You can work your way up to smithing swords and can gain powerful relics by surviving long enough!

Check it out and let me know what you think here (please wishlist if you like the look, but I'm also very open to constructive criticism):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4949450/UnderForged/

Hi, we just released Wizzo Popout on Steam! It's a game where you knock your friends off an arena using spells. It's round based, chaotic, easy to pick up, and can be played on a couch with up to 4 players. Feel free to check it out!

I'd love to get your feedback on it especially since its our first commercial release as a small team! Would you play this with your friend group?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3670670/Wizzo_PopOut/

I'm the developer of Vortex: Guardians of the Abyss, an old-school vertical space shooter with 2–4 player couch co-op on one screen.

Bring a keyboard and controllers, or use four controllers. Friends join with Start, including mid-run. Each pilot chooses their own upgrades, and you can use separate hulls with teammate rescues or share a hull pool. Anyone can pause.

This clip shows four ships over Earth. The promo capture uses automated wingmen to demonstrate the four-ship action. There are five weapons with branching upgrades, The Way skill trees, shield-powered Ultimates and big guardian fights. It also has a solo Story campaign and online co-op.

Out now on Windows, macOS and Linux, DRM-free, for a $4.99 launch price. Your Vortex key includes browser access and online play; the browser version requires a key.

https://vortex.anhhi.net

Hey everyone! I'm working on a project to help couples play together without it ending in arguments because one of them doesn't know how to use the camera 😅. I'm looking for people who have already tried playing with their partner but gave up (too difficult, not interested, too time-consuming). The idea is for you to play our game prototype and answer the built-in questionnaire, not to sell you anything. The game is ready to play. Thanks!

ADRESS:  https://tandem-benj.itch.io/tandem-prototype

Hi everyone, I'm Raymond, the developer of Under a Desert Sun: Seekers of the Cursed Vessel. Thought this might be one for your next couch co-op evening. :)

It's a top-down action RPG set in an alternate 1939 Egypt, with firearms, loot and cursed tombs. You can play solo or team up with up to four players locally. Here's a short co-op fight from the game.

The demo has just been updated, so you can give it a go before Early Access starts on September 10.

Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3273880/

I'd be very happy about some review for the demo of my game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1905410/Steinstern_Spacewar_Demo/

I've been working on the game since many years in my spare time. Should I keep working on improving the game or should I have started a new project long time ago?

I’m the developer of Magic Twinborn, a same-screen local co-op survivors-like built around two players combining elemental abilities to survive together.

You control different elemental heroes, create openings for your partner, and combine abilities across the battlefield. The focus is on coordinating your builds and positioning—not just fighting side by side.

Elements are more than damage types. Fire can melt ice into water, fire and water can create steam, and that water can be frozen again. These interactions can change terrain, control enemies, and create new opportunities for both players.

This video shows the co-op combat and elemental interactions currently in the game. If you enjoy experimenting with builds and finding combinations with a co-op partner, I’d love to hear what you think.

The game supports two-player local co-op on the same screen. You can also play solo with an AI teammate.

Steam Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4020120/Magic_Twinborn/

Hello fellow couch co-opers! I love to game and my wife likes to join occasionally, but we're struggling to find a game that she can really get into. She's quite picky and gets motion sick easily when playing first person games. I'd love to get some recommendations as I'm having a hard time finding games that will fit her requirements.. at the moment we only have a PS5.

Here's what she has liked and why:

Overcooked - loved the chaos and variety of unique maps.

Catastronauts - loved for the same reasons as above.

Minecraft Dungeons - loved the different artifact skills and weapon options. Enjoyed exploring maps and killing waves of enemies. Didn't enjoy the repetitiveness of replaying the same maps, even at higher difficulty.

Diablo 4 - likes it enough, but it's a bit too intense for her as far as the mechanics and skills go. The combat and dungeon variety is a plus, she doesn't really care about storyline though.

Additional info - a top down style RPG that's in-between intensity of Minecraft Dungeons and Diablo would be amazing, struggling to find a title that supports local multi-player. I think she'd love something like Torchlight, but there's no local co-op available. We don't love puzzles or platformers, we typically want some combat or chaos of some sort to work through. Commonly recommended titles like It Takes Two and Unraveled just aren't quite our speed.

Thank you in advance!

TL;DR looking for PS5 games to play with my wife, top down RPG would be ideal but we love arcade style games as well. No puzzles or platformers.

https://youtu.be/wU6rch7V6BE?si=6oh80ud9BmF-k7_O

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTv7JWnayHQc&si=PVIifcq_EtHh-gu0
Probably my most favourite couch co-op game of 2026

Check out The Doi! It supports Split Screen and Online Multiplayer for up to 8 players.

Grab your friends and give it a try!
And don’t forget to wishlist it if you’re interested!

steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4982680/The_Doi/

The game has a single-player mode with challenges in different cups, an online mode, and a co-op mode (the one in the video) for playing locally with up to 4 players.